[Comprehensive] Famous Jianghu

In less than three months after leaving Jiayuguan in the west, Qi Wu proved with his actual actions that he was definitely not talking outrageous words.He said that he could guarantee the three of them to travel unimpeded in the Western Regions all the way, so that the three of them could reach the Hanhai Kingdom safely and smoothly.

"I've fulfilled half of my promise, now I'll go to Chedie Kingdom and wait for you to show up on time."

Before leaving, Qi Wu added another sentence, "The three are all smart people, and they will never be punctual. Otherwise, if I make it easy for you, I will also make it difficult for you to leave."

The gate of King Hanhai's capital city.

The three of them nodded at the same time, they didn't even think about watching Qi Wu leave, so they all turned around and entered the city first.

Lu Xiaofeng stroked his beard that had finally returned to normal, looking at the scenery of the foreign kingdom city, he couldn't help feeling sorry.If there were no extra quests to find the ancient city, he would be able to wander in exotic places from tonight.

"It's just that we are acting in secret, so we can't alarm the Peacock Prince and his gang who want to seize power. We don't have to eat, drink and have fun tonight, and we have to be a gentleman on the beam again."

Seeing that he is about to sneak into the palace and send back the Jade Buddha in the Hanhai Sea, Lou Jingmo regrets that he has not been able to solve the mystery of the Jade Buddha yet.

Along the way, she has tried to infuse internal energy into it to explore the composition of the jade, but there are no secrets such as micro-carvings inside the Jade Buddha. In terms of jade quality, it is just a piece of top-quality suet jade, and one jade is worth ten thousand gold.

"If only the king would like to chat a little more."

Lou Jingmo still wanted to fight for the solution to the mystery.Assuming that sentence of Buddha really has a deep meaning in my heart, could it be that the successors of the Hanhai Kingdom have all searched in the wrong direction?Those words did not only refer to the Jade Buddha.

Hua Manlou heard that the two people beside him had their own wishes, and his wish was very simple, just hand over the Jade Buddha to the old king, and give his father's handwritten letter together. "It gets dark late in the desert, so find a place to rest first. I'm tired after traveling day and night for the past three months."

The three of them were not afraid of being physically tired after traveling day and night, but the mental fatigue of walking with Qi Wu all the way was unavoidable.They seemed to be holding a fire mine that would explode at any time. Although they estimated that they could throw the fire mine in time, they were uncertain whether they would be affected.

So, this rest came in the dead of night.

When the royal city was quiet, the trio of returning the Jade Buddha also took action.The matter of sneaking into the palace to look for the old king went smoothly, and I saw the Lord alone in an hour, but the old king had a bad complexion after waking up from a dream in the middle of the night.

"You three have worked hard." The old king suppressed the fright of being slapped on the window in the middle of the night, and the anger he felt when he heard that the princess, son, daughter-in-law and his in-laws were plotting to usurp the throne.

The old king simply dressed neatly and did not go to sleep, but asked the three of them to help him fly over the eaves and walls for a while, and then stored the Jade Buddha in a private treasury.I think this place has been searched many times by the Peacock Prince's staff, and the most dangerous place has become the safest place.

When the old king locked the heavy lock in person, the delivery of the three to the Jade Buddha of the Han Sea was finally completed.

After reading Hua Ruling's letter, the old king knew what happened to his old friend over the years. He patted Hua Manlou's arm and apologized.

"The Western Regions are too far away from Jiangnan, that's why I gave things to my most trusted friend, but I didn't expect to cause you such harm. Laohua couldn't think of a way to cure you, and I dare not trust you Big, but if you need help in the Western Regions, I will do my best, so don't be polite to me."

"It's not the king's fault. It's the greed of people's hearts that causes the Iron Shoes Bandit."

Hua Manlou will not really be rude to King Hanhai. The two iron shoe thieves are dead, and the Jade Buddha has returned. He will not complain about anyone anymore, and he does not want to ask anyone for compensation. "If your majesty is willing to chat with us a few more words, can you explain to us why the Hanhai Kingdom uses a Jade Buddha as a symbol of succession?"

Since it is not easy to directly apologize to the old king, and he wants to do something now, Hua Manlou will take this opportunity to ask about the origin of the Jade Buddha.

The old king couldn't sleep anyway, so he talked about the Jade Buddha's succession from beginning to end. "That's a long story. More than 200 years ago, the ancestors founded the Hanhai Kingdom here, and the reason was to watch the lake."

The meaning of the word Hanhai changes with the change of dynasties.At first it referred to the sea in the north, but gradually it became a synonym for the desert of the Western Regions.

According to legend, more than 200 years ago, Yu Hong discovered a large lake in the desert and practiced superb martial arts. Taking this as a sign of good luck, he established the capital of the Hanhai King on the side of the large lake under the right time and place.

According to the documents, Yu Hong began to believe in Buddhism when he reached middle age. Not only did he chant scriptures and copy scriptures every day, but he also curbed the killing intent of fighting in all directions when he was young.In his later years, he carved the Hanhai Jade Buddha with his own hands, and promulgated the decree that the Jade Buddha is equal to the jade seal, hoping that the successor who succeeds later will be compassionate and refrain from resorting to military force or excessive taxation.

"In this way, the Jade Buddha has been passed down from generation to generation. When the new king ascends the throne, he must only hold the Jade Buddha in his hand to be considered a legitimate successor."

As the old king spoke, he opened a scroll, "Whether the Jade Buddha has hidden secrets or not is uncertain. It may be just a symbol, but there is a secret passed down by the kings of Hanhai in the past. I smiled and said the phrase Buddha is in my heart, but it was a smile with no clear meaning."

It turned out that Shang Yuhong, the founding king of Hanhai Kingdom, was just a commoner. How he became a martial arts master from an ordinary person, and how many hardships he went through to establish Hanhai Kingdom, all those historical records were burned.

It was Yu Hong who burned a lot of documents before his death, and he was willing to leave not much, except for a Jade Buddha, only a scroll of his own paintings.

At the moment, when you open the picture scroll, you can see the grandeur of the royal court in the painting. Someone climbed to the high platform and looked at the shimmering lake not far from the palace.

"This lake is the vast sea?" Lou Jingmo carefully observed the scroll less than three feet long.

This painting is not an ink and wash freehand landscape, but a colorful meticulous realistic painting.I saw that the people on the high platform in the painting looked old, which indicated that Yu Hong was old, but at first glance, he found a problem-in fact, there was no such a large lake in Hanhai Wangcheng even within a hundred miles.

Not only is there not now, but the three of them investigated the situation of Hanhai Kingdom before coming to the Western Regions. There was no such a large lake here 200 years ago, and there was only one river with gentle water speed on the side of the Hanhai Kingdom.It is rumored that Yuhong founded the country by looking at the lake, but where the lake is has always been a mystery.

"That's right, the Hanhai Kingdom has never had such a big lake. This is another mystery left by the ancestor. The history books have been turned into ashes, and the sporadic articles record that the ancestor established the king's capital because of the big lake. It has long been unclear whether it is true or not."

Seeing that Lou Jingmo looked at the painting carefully, the old king laid the scroll on the desk for her to read slowly, while he continued to talk about ancient times.

"It is precisely because the ancestor behaved strangely in his later years that people guessed that his last words had some deep meaning. Buddha is in my heart. These five words may be able to explain clearly the ups and downs of the ancestor's life.

However, for the next 200 years, no one from Hanhai King understood the meaning of it.I am ashamed to say that my descendants are not as good as my ancestors, or are barely competent in governing a small country, but there is no one who is as good at martial arts as my ancestors, and is proficient in all eighteen martial arts. "

The secret conversation in the study came to an abrupt end.

The old king originally wanted to invite the three of them to visit the palace in a few days, and when he had dealt with the problems of the Peacock Prince and others in the near future, he would accompany the three of them to see the scenery of Hanhai Kingdom.I don't want to hear that the three of them will leave the city in a few days and must go to Chedi Country as soon as possible, so I can only send a good BMW horse to help the three of them travel without hindrance, and wish them all success.

The three of them came and went in the middle of the night, and waved their sleeves without taking away a single cloud.

After walking a long distance from the royal city, Hua Manlou slowed down and looked at Lou Jingmo, "Xiaolou, do you have something on your mind? Is there something wrong with that ancient painting?"

The ancient painting that the old king took out was painted by Yu Hong himself. This painting can be called the most treasure of the Hanhai Kingdom. Although Huamanlou was curious, he didn't allow him to touch the painting and look at it.However, he noticed that Lou Jingmo's breath changed slightly when he was looking at the painting, and he probably discovered some news left by Yu Hong in the painting.

"Is there any?" Lu Xiaofeng also carefully looked at ancient paintings in the study before. He didn't know the level of painting skills, but he just thought this painting was good. The scenery of Hanhai King Capital.

"One thing is indeed very similar. The Jade Buddha in the Hanhai Sea is [-]-[-]% similar to Yu Hong in the painting. There is almost no difference in facial appearance, clothing and clothing. That is to say, the Jade Buddha statue looks younger. The difference is that the person in the painting is different because of standing. The feet are exposed, while the Jade Buddha sits on the lotus platform so that the clothes cover the feet.

But this is not surprising, the old king just said that the Buddha statue was carved by Yu Hong himself, so it is normal for the Buddha statue to be carved in Yu Hong's own appearance. "

Lou Jingmo nodded slightly, Lu Xiaofeng was right about the similarities between the two, and Hua Manlou was right about her guessing that she actually made another surprising discovery.

"Yu Hong is really interesting. He burnt books at the end of his life but carved jade Buddhas to pass on to the world. He must have a chance encounter and practiced a high level of martial arts, but he didn't pass it on to his descendants.

Brother Lu, have you looked closely at the image of Yu Hong in the ancient paintings? He is not afraid to show his old age, and he doesn't look like a king with a posture, but is a bit slovenly. "

"You mean the people in the painting are disheveled, right? Yu Hong on the high platform didn't wear shoes, one foot was bare, and the other was wearing white socks." Lu Xiaofeng thought for a while and said, "There are also patterns of clouds embroidered on the socks." .”

The next moment, Lu Xiaofeng's eyes widened, and he saw Lou Jingmo take out a white jade pendant from his sleeve as if by magic.The jade pendant was only half the size of a palm, but it was in the shape of a white sock.The hell is that it is engraved with auspicious clouds, which is the same style as Yu Hong's socks in the painting.

"Xiaolou, where did you get this thing from?!"

When Lu Xiaofeng asked, he took the jade pendant and looked at it repeatedly. He didn't see anything special, so he touched Huamanlou carefully.

"The jade pendant is quite old, at least it is a 500-year-old ancient jade, and the material used is better than the Jade Buddha."

Hua Manlou was sure that this object was not made of the same material as the Hanhai Jade Buddha, and he sniffed the jade pendant lightly, "This object also has a temple-specific sandalwood, presumably it has been enshrined in the temple for many years."

"Brother Hua is right. Seven or eight years ago, I accidentally got this thing from a nunnery."

Lou Jingmo briefly explained the origin of the white sock jade pendant, and Sikong Zaixing went to Jingsi Temple once again after leaving his teacher, but brought back another surprising news. "Sikong got the news that four months after he and I left Jing Si Nunnery, the head of the nunnery died of a sudden illness. After that, Jing Si Nunnery was disbanded, and the other dozen or so nuns in the nunnery all went to other temples."

Back then, Lou Jingmo administered needles to the Master of the Siyulian Nunnery, punished him with small punishments, and admonished him to see death, so it was certain that the Master was in good health and had no hidden diseases.Even if the Anzhu had diarrhea for a month, it would not kill her.

Since the nun was cremated after her death, it was difficult to ascertain the cause of her death after many years, and it was impossible to say whether this white sock jade pendant, which has not been discovered for a long time, was a death talisman.

"There are so many coincidences in the world." Hua Manlou believed that Lou Jingmo's actions were measured, and it would not be because of her acupuncture that caused the sudden death of the head of Jing Si Nunnery.It is more likely that someone is going after the white sock jade pendant. After all, it is a pair, and it takes a pair of jade pendants to order the Baiyunhui.

Although the Hanhai Kingdom in the Western Regions is far from the Central Plains, it cannot be said that Yu Hong has nothing to do with the Baiyunhui.Analyzing Yu Hong's strange behavior before and after, if a person does not pass on the advanced martial arts, except for the mediocrity and incompetence of the younger generations, it is most likely that there is something wrong with the martial arts itself.

This may explain why Yu Hong started chanting scriptures and chanting Buddha, not because he was suddenly inspired by a Bodhisattva, but to suppress the demons in his heart.

Hua Manlou even expressed a guess about the great lake painted by Yu Hong, "I read an anecdote about a desert in ancient books. The sea in the sand, its water is not drinkable, but it can travel thousands of miles. Yu Hong may have encountered Such a big lake, it once appeared in the capital of Hanhai King but disappeared. It is said that countless secrets are buried in the desert, and Yu Hong may have been to a certain mysterious place with the movement of Haizi."

However, after more than 200 years, how can we see the mysterious Great Lake again?

Lou Jingmo thought of Yu Hong in the painting. He was dressed in a simple white dress, and only one foot was wearing socks. There were no extra accessories on his body, except for a string of twelve white jade beads on his wrist.

The difference between the portrait and the Buddha statue mentioned by Lu Xiaofeng still missed one point, the Buddha statue does not have that string of beads.Now it seems that Yu Hong will not add more Buddhist beads to the painting for no reason, so will this string of Buddhist beads be the key?

"The Buddha is in my heart, the Buddha is in my heart." Lou Jingmo chanted these words, suddenly a flash of inspiration occurred, and she had an absurd guess. "I have a bold idea. Why don't we..."

Lu Xiaofeng stretched out his hand and made a silent gesture, he was inexplicably flustered, Lou Jingmo was usually bold enough, now she deliberately emphasized bold ideas, who knows how bizarre it would be.

"Wait a minute, wait a moment! Xiaolou, are you sure you still have time to be bold?"